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Listen to this crowd. Elon has achieved Michael Jordan level rizz with...engineering.

I'd respect opponents of surge pricing more if they'd say explicitly what other allocation method they want to use instead. Lines? Lottery? Submit grant application to official govt agency for review?

This is another example of smart people having bad theory of mind for dumb people. When you aren't smart, you learn very quickly from experience that people talking about things in a way you don't understand - or doing things in a way that doesn't make intuitive sense - is a tactic that they can use to trick you out of your money. It's the same instinct that makes certain people skeptical of religion, except it's present in a material reality they're trying to sell you here and now so write that check please. Plenty of "Peasants" know enough to know that they aren't smart and other people are. Those "Peasants" also know that smart people are willing to leverage that intelligence gap against them more often than not. So they see something like having 8 oil plugs and go "that's probably a trick", and that hueristic probably saves them a lot more money and time than a mindset that would lead them to go "oh, it must need 8 plugs for some reason I don't get".

Possibly one of the most horrifying graphs I’ve ever laid eyes on.

- say no to every party - enjoy being home a bit too much - wonder why people stop inviting

give a man a tool, and he'll get to work. give a man a way to build his own tools, and building tools becomes his work.

I remember playing chess on Chess dot com recently and being surprised at which moves the review called a "blunder". From the point of view of a top chess engine, basically every move I make is a blunder. I suspect that from the point of view of superintelligence, literally everything we do is a blunder relative to our very own goals and values. Even the things we judge in retrospect to have been great moves. "Yeah, sure, publishing that paper seemed like a great move to you, but see? You could have landed a job at Cisco, been CEO in 3 months, and within a year saved 10,000,000 lives from malaria. Except that too would have been a blunder because... world peace in 8 months, and that's with enough slack for..."

[read about what’s happening with AI] ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad. [go outside] ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew. [read more about what’s happening with AI] ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble. [go outside] ME: Wait...

>hey opus please go remove <thing> opus: <thing> is now removed. I added 4000 lines of tests asserting that <thing> no longer exists so that it can't come back without us knowing.

GPT-4 level intelligence has gotten roughly 1800x smaller

Let me try and explain: a Krispy Kreme uses water to make doughnuts which can be eaten and coffee which can be drunken. The workers wash their hands so the food is sanitary and the customers use the bathroom. In a data center, all that water is wasted with no treats.

Holy trvke

Reality of our days: 1. I am sitting on a set of vulns (4+) that allows me to remotely take over a consumer home automation device I have (3+ diff ways). 2. The vendor doesn't only serve consumers, but also critical infra (announced partnerships include pharma manufacturing plants, airport logistics, hospitals, etc) across various locations in Europe and the US (not the same product line, ofc, so maybe moot). 3. Claude and Astra refuse to help me explore even my own device, so now I'm using Chinese hosted models for investigating. 4. The vendor (with a revenue of $0.75B) does not maintain any security disclosure practice whatsoever, nor does respond to emails. So, to recap, I need to outsource vulnerability hunting of (potentially, I don't know) critical western infrastructure to Chinese models, because the western models refuse; and the vendor doesn't give a shit. Fun timeline. PS: The vendor is Swiss.

Casual table-service restaurants (not fast food) all seem to have switched to smash burgers in the last couple of years. It’s not a savings on ingredients, since you normally get two 4-oz patties rather than one 8-ounce. My theory is they cannot recruit/retain kitchen staff competent enough to cook an 8-oz patty without delivering it raw or burned beyond recognition. It basically takes no skill to cook a smash burger… if it looks done, it is done.

I think I'm a freak for this take but I love fundraising. It's so fun. If they say no, then I get useful feedback and can use it to become better. If they say yes, I get money. Both are great outcomes. (tho i have not been turned down yet so I think I have to try harder)

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7 the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day: > two cameras watch every salmon that swims past > AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse > then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away > the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao